Senior Traffic Signal / Street Light Technician

Posting number: 00970

Department: Street Operations

Job classification: Senior Traffic Signal / Street Light Technician

Posting type: Open

Categories: Public Works

Summary

General Description:
The purpose of this job within the organization is to install, repair and maintain traffic signals, related control devices, and street lights, exercise technical supervision over less experienced staff. This job works independently, under limited supervision, reporting major activities through periodic meetings.

Duties and Responsibilities:
The functions listed below are those that represent the majority of the time spent working in this job. Management may assign additional functions related to the type of work of the job as necessary.

Examples of duties

Essential Functions:

Conducts a wide range of inspections and preventative maintenance work on traffic signals, controllers, and street lights.

 

Replaces defective equipment, including poles and other electrical systems as necessary.

 

Tests electrical and electronic equipment including traffic signal heads, street lights, controllers, auxiliary equipment and other systems to ensure that they operate as intended.

 

Ensures electrical compatibility and safety components; adjusts equipment to repair or solve problems.

 

Responds to knockdowns and/or malfunctions of traffic signal and street light equipment; repairs, replaces, modifies and installs traffic signal equipment including signal heads, poles, controllers, lights, circuitry, switches, fuses, timers and cabinet parts.

 

Makes field repairs of traffic signal controls and auxiliary equipment.

 

Performs electrical system wiring and installations; locates conduit, cables and other underground devices to perform work.

 

Replaces lamps; investigates complaints and reports of malfunctions.

Prepares written documentation for the Assistant General Manager of recent problems, changes and condition of signal equipment annually.

 

Additional Duties:

Checks intersections for proper signal operations and operates specialized computer programs to make signal timing changes as directed ensuring that proper timing is restored after repairs are made.

 

Installs or upgrades signal equipment; consults with traffic engineering staff or representatives to identify and resolve technical problems.

 

Reconstructs and refurbishes traffic signal equipment or defective electrical equipment in the shop using appropriate tools and methods.

 

Inspects and tests equipment installed by contractors.

 

Interprets complex electrical plans, specification and schematics; ensures conformity with codes, regulations and safety requirements; reads blueprints and performs general electrical maintenance and repair work.

Performs related work as assigned.

Responsibilities, Requirements and Impacts Data Responsibility:

Data Responsibility refers to information, knowledge, and conceptions obtained by observation, investigation, interpretation, visualization, and mental creation.  Data are intangible and include numbers, words, symbols, ideas, concepts, and oral verbalizations.

 

Gathers, organizes, analyzes, examines or evaluates data or information and may prescribe action based on these data or information.

 

People Responsibility:

People include co-workers, workers in other areas or agencies and the general public.

 

Provides information, guidance or assistance to people that directly facilitates task accomplishment; may give instructions or assignments to helpers or assistants.

 

Asset Responsibility:

Assets responsibility refers to the responsibility for achieving economies or preventing loss within the organization.

 

Requires some responsibility for achieving minor economies and/or preventing minor losses through the handling of or accounting for materials, supplies or small amounts of money.

 

Mathematical Requirements:

Mathematics requires the use of symbols, numbers and formulas to solve mathematical problems.

 

Uses basic algebra involving variables and formulas and/or basic geometry involving plane and solid figures, circumferences, areas and volumes and/or compute discounts and interest rates.

 

Communications Requirements:

Communications involves the ability to read, write, and sp